Queanbeyan Leagues Club Ltd v Poldune Pty Ltd [2001] NSWSC 898

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Queanbeyan Leagues Club Ltd v Poldune Pty Ltd [2001] NSWSC 898 CURRENT JURISDICTION: Equity FILE NUMBER(S) : SC 3418/96 HEARING DATE(S) : 9 - 11 October 2001 JUDGMENT DATE : 16 October 2001

Queanbeyan Leagues Club Limited (P) GIO Australia Holdings Limited (D2) PARTIES : M J Armstrong (D14) GIO Personal Investment Services Limited (D15) Marshall Marks Kennedy (XD1) JUDGMENT OF : Hamilton J

P M Donohoe QC & A Radojev (P) COUNSEL : M J Slattery QC & R Pepper (D2 & 15) I Bailey (D14) D L Davies SC & M T McCulloch (XD1) Collaery & Colquhoun (P) SOLICITORS : Barker Gosling (D2 & 15) Tress Cocks & Maddox (D14) Phillips Fox (XD1) CATCHWORDS : EVIDENCE [198] - Course of evidence - Reopening case and recalling witnesses - By parties - First trial of separate questions concluded - Principles applicable - PROCEDURE [95], [101] - Supreme Court procedure - Practice under Supreme Court Rules - Pleadings - In general - Applications to strike out as prejudicial or embarrassing amended defences filed without opposition - Whether prejudice or embarrassment established - Amendment - Application to revoke leave to amend. LEGISLATION CITED : Supreme Court Rules 1970, Pt 15 r 26, Pt 31 r 2 Coulton v Holcombe (1986) 162 CLR 1 McCarthy v McIntyre [2000] FCA 1250 Queanbeyan Leagues Club Ltd v Poldune Pty Ltd [2000] NSWSC 216 CASES CITED : Queanbeyan Leagues Club Ltd v Poldune Pty Ltd NSWSC Hamilton J 17 December 1998 unreported Smith v NSW Bar Association (No 2) (1992) 176 CLR 256 Tepko Pty Ltd v Water Board (2001) 75 ALJR 775 Urban Transport Authority of NSW v Nweiser (1991) 28 NSWLR 471 Water Board v Moustakas (1988) 180 CLR 483 DECISION : Ruling that issue of causation as between GIO and cross defendant MMK not determined. Application to reopen case to further cross examine witness refused. Applications to revoke leave to file amended defences or strike out parts as prejudicial and embarrassing refused.